Posted on 03/24/2015 2:14:30 PM PDT by Dave346
Yuval Steinitz says Israel and France share concerns over US-led hasty deal with Iran, as he ends a 2-day special diplomatic mission.
Israel's intelligence minister on Tuesday wrapped up a two-day European diplomatic offensive against making concessions to Iran in nuclear negotiations with world powers, his spokesman said.
"Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz completed two days of intensive discussion in Paris and London," a statement from Eyal Basson said, adding that the minister was accompanied by National Security Adviser Yossi Cohen and "intelligence experts".
"They met the British negotiating team, headed by Simon Gass, and senior intelligence officials," the statement said, adding that Steinitz in his meetings talked about Iranian research and development on advanced centrifuges.
Steinitz said that a deal with Tehran should oblige it to reveal details about past experiments it has carried out in nuclear weapons technology, the statement said. It gave no details about the Israeli delegation's talks in Paris.
But in an interview with French daily Le Monde, the Israeli minister warned against concluding a "bad accord" on Iran's nuclear program, saying his country shares France's wariness of trusting Tehran.
"We believe it would be a bad accord with severe gaps in it," said Steinitz, who met French President Francois Hollande's diplomatic adviser on Monday.
During his visit, Steinitz echoed French concerns about an overly flexible deal.
"We see things the same way France does. We have the same suspicions about Iran, its intentions in the Middle East and the possibility it will not respect the accord," Steinitz warned.
"If Iran became a (nuclear) country, many Sunni nations in the region would join the nuclear race."
"This is perhaps the last opportunity to influence these negotiations before a memorandum of understanding is signed," Steinitz said.
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